Word: friend
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...depraved poet once pointed out that all men kill the thing they love, some with a sword, some with a word. Last week Joseph Carson, Jr., who had loved knowledge but found more of it in the head of his friend than in his own, tried to kill knowledge with his fists, with a shoe, with a dressing gown and a milk bottle...
...never quite an even friendship. Mr. Carson, the younger of the two, secretly envied his friend's intellectual equipment and attainments. Mr. Buermeyer, though not conceited, was occasionally made conscious of his superiority, real or imaginary, and sometimes adopted his old air of omniscient graduate student talking to callow undergraduate...
...afternoon last week the friends met in Philosopher Buermeyer's apartment and settled themselves to drink a bottle of grain alcohol. They mixed the fiery fluid with water, pursued recondite subjects. With each drink, a more hysterical note crept into Joseph Carson's voice. Jealousy gnawed. To shake it off, he blurted bitter taunts, taunts so childish that Prof. Buermeyer brushed them easily aside until he was bored, then dropped his woozy head and fell asleep. Infuriated, Philosopher Carson shouted at him to sit up and talk philosophy. The alcohol inflaming one mind had, however, quite numbed...
Died. Eki Hioki, 64, onetime (1920) Japanese Ambassador to Germany; earlier Secretary to the Embassy at Washington; enthusiastic friend of the U. S.; at Tokyo, of stomach ulcer and kidney disease...
Hollis also established in 1727 a professorship of mathematics and natural philosophy. He had long meditated the subject, and wrote concerning it to his friend, Benjamin Colman, as follows: "Though jeered and sneered at by many I leave the issue to the Lord, for whose sake Isperform these offices and services, and hope I shall be enabled to continue firm and finish this affair, which I call a good work...